I’ll be travelling back to my hometown in the US for the first time in 3 years. This means I have a lot of plane time = reading time!
The challenge will be to leave time before falling asleep, or to wake up early enough to read, and not just get lost in time spent with family and friends.
I’m halfway through two proper novels.
It would be such an amazing feeling to finish them both during this challenge.
@windupbird Thank you for organising this challenge again!! Also, I hope you don’t mind that I quoted your calendar/layout as I find it to be gorgeous
I too wanna read manga! (I feel like it’ll be a nice break from novels ) Do you already have some titles in mind?
I will also be doing something like this from end of summer in prep for the N2 in December Never thought of combining it with this challenge, which would be so nice! Especially the reading textbooks.
You really do have so much!! I’m impressed and a little intimidated
Soooo satisfying!!! I’m like you, where my goal is to just read~ I think doing challenges like this makes reading into a fun habit (at least my success rate is higher )
:0 I’m so curious how this will do for you, compared to the two month. I hope it gives you the refresh you need!
Aspirational! I have missed a couple of days here and there each time… but I always make them up after it would be nice to get everyday once
I read my first novel because of this challenge last summer, and still feel the exact same as you guys today. This feeling is actually what gets me through those hard-to-read pages haha.
5 years later and still the same? I wonder if reading like this will ever become mundane
Welcome back!!
I can’t believe it’s already been one year. Time really does fly.
First time doing this challenge, thanks to those who organized this! I am a relatively new learner, just reached level 2. I can read hiragana and katakana, however my kanji is severely lacking, is it recommended to find something that is only written in those two scripts or should I find something that includes kanji as well?
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I am currently reading よつばと! I am not very good at updating this post but I am reading every day!
As long as it has furigana (that’s the kana reading over the kanji) you’ll be fine. Kanji make reading easier actually, because you can clearly see which word out of the several homonyms is intended. How is your grammar knowledge though? It’s grammar that will be your main obstacle in understanding what you read.
Thank you! And no, my grammer is extremely limited. I was thinking I would just improve my reading and my grammer would just continually increase as I keep learning japanese.
Ooh good question
So far I really only want to get more of the Japanese Hunter x Hunter manga since I know for certain that I’ll enjoy the series, but maybe Death Note too? I have all of the English Black Edition volumes so I think it’d be interesting to read the series all over again… (it’s been a good year since I’ve last read it and those books are on my shelf quite literally gathering dust lol)
Um, definitely no Demon Slayer though, it’s a great series and I definitely recommend it but one box set is enough, I don’t need another 23 volumes of the same series but in Japanese
Do you have any titles you enjoyed/recommend? I’d like to discover some new series so anything helps
Finally updated my home thread with some goals I have in mind for this challenge. I’m going to try to work on a lot of different mediums: VNs, books and manga, so it’s pretty exciting.
In the past three challenges I’ve done I haven’t posted too much but I’ve loved reading everyone’s daily updates so this time I’ll try to do daily updates too (famous last words?) even if I do them the day after (I tend to read before bed) or skip a few.
I am going to give this a try! I’m a bit intimidated by the calendar and mystified by how to edit the wiki, so for now I might just post my progress occasionally if that’s all right. Yesterday I finished reading しろくまカフェ Vol 1, my first ever Japanese book; I posted here about celebrating such small milestones: Small Wins – Classroom as Microcosm. Today I began よつばと! and plan to read every day through July at least. I look forward to hearing what others are reading about so I can start compiling a list of things to tackle as my skills improve!
You have good taste! I particularly love Hunter x Hunter so much (though I haven’t read or seen it in years ). And I can sympathise with you over not wanting stacks of duplicate series. I dream of having floor to ceiling, built-in bookshelf’s one day to I can buy books to my hearts content~
I don’t know if the series will suit you, but 海獣の子供 (Children of the Sea), Pluto, and おやすみプンプン are all on my bookshelf so I feel confident in recommending them! The latter is actually still on my to-read list… hope I can get to it sooner than later
I’m excited to join in again! This time I’m hoping to finish up a lot of stuff that I started in the last challenge and hopefully start some new stuff around August.
Thank you, I’ll be (incoming sea pun) shore to check those books out
xD but I’ll definitely give them a look! I’ve heard of Children of the Sea and おやすみプンプン but おやすみプンプン is definitely going to stay on my “read-when-i’m-much-much-older” manga list because I’ve heard it covers some rather heavy themes and I’d rather not read that quite yet… T-T
But regardless I’ll give the other two a go and see what they’re about :3
Technically this challenge starts tomorrow for me, but I’m marking my place as it were since I now know where I’m starting from.
I have 121 pages left in 硝子の塔の殺人, or ~4 hrs since I’m reading along with a (sped up) audiobook. Hoping to wrap it up this weekend if I can.
I have neglected 糞尿譚 and should probably get back to it
I plan to start volume one of 本好き, for which I also have an audiobook cause why not. It’s quite short so I imagine <2 weeks for that.
I don’t know what to read after that. I have so many books. Here are a scattering that I own and would be willing to start after 本好き so if you have feelings (want my review, love the author, whatever) lemme know. Can’t guarantee I’ll pick it, but could sway me!
If I had to choose I’d say 火車, only because I just put it on my to-read list myself!
But all of those sound interesting, so I’ll be looking forward to your impressions whatever you choose.
First update! Read page 60 to page 63 (16 – 17%) of かがみの孤城. This challenge I’ll be keeping my summaries short as I’ll soon be very short on time. Along the way I may also decide to only post either once a week, or when I’ve reached some checkpoint/milestone.
I track my reading in my study log (as well as progress in all other areas of Japanese and academic study), so feel free to drop in!
Today: 5 pages of よつばと! My reading practice is: I read a volume cover to cover without looking anything up, to get a gist and also to monitor how much I’ve progressed. I then go back and work page by page, looking up all unfamiliar vocab and some grammatical constructions. I’m in the first stage with this book, having just finished Vol. 1 of しろくまカフェ a couple of days ago. I’ve definitely gotten a bit better - I can understand some stuff! - and Ayase-san’s chatter about 燃えるゴミand 燃えないゴミ is bringing back memories of a school picnic when I was teaching in Japan, when the students kept running back and forth to ask their teacher which garbage bin to put each piece of trash into. I am finding this book very cute so far.